Description
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with connector management privileges could cause the cluster to allocate an uncontrolled amount of memory when connector resources with an excessively large `description` field are created and subsequently accessed, exhausting available heap memory and crashing the affected node.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Elastic Elasticsearch
Default version status: unaffected
8.12.0 to ≤ 8.19.22affected9.0.0 to ≤ 9.3.8affected9.4.0 to ≤ 9.4.7affected9.5.0 to ≤ 9.5.4affected